Doesn't feel as easy as it's been advertised to me.
Caveats:
- I'm installing it with an Embedded Database- Honestly I don't feel the need for a lot of features here.
- I'm installing it as Active Directory-integrated- which seems to be the crux of my headaches here.
Problem:
- The home stretch- when I go to add an Admin user, I get the message that no valid user was specified. I get the impression this is because the ActiveDirectory/LDAP information I've supplied is somehow incorrect. I'm honestly not claiming to have compendious knowledge of LDAP and it's possible I'm getting it wrong.
- The Test Settings button does diddly- though I understand that this is for some reason a well-documented (yet unaddressed) issue.
- Conflicting information about how I should be entering things in the Setup fields - for instance, at the Server Settings screen, the first field is titled "Domain", yet the ? bubble to the right of it says it should be the name of "this server". Would that be the server that Openfire is running on? If it is, why am I reading that Openfire expects the server's name and the domain to be the same thing (I can rarely think of an instance where you'd see this sort of coincidence)?
Assumptions:
- "Domain" field- I am hearing this is meant to contain the FQDN of the server that is running Openfire, in which case: "cmi-com.columbiamanufacturing.local"
- Base DN - as the domain name is "columbiamanufacturing.local" I rather imagine that makes the Base DN: "ou=Users;dc=ColumbiaManufacturing,dc=local"
- Admin DN- I've been told using the default administrator account is acceptable, in which case: "CN=Administrator,CN=Users,DC=ColumbiaManufacturing,DC=local"
Again, all in all, I'm feeling that this is all the way around the world from "easy". I'm missing something and the sparse instructions provided in the setup process aren't helping me figure out what that 'something' is.
Message was edited by: Cmiserable